what books have you read for pleasure?

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<p>Just thought this was one of the more interesting (and harmless) questions we could ask everyone. Copy and paste straight from your application. Here's the template:</p>

<p>Books for pleasure:</p>

<p>Required reading:</p>

<p>Newspapers, magazines, publications:</p>

<p>Art, shows, festivals, entertainment:</p>

<p>I'll start...</p>

<p>Books for pleasure: Gone With the Wind, Genesis (Bible), Leaves of Grass, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Complications (Atul Gawande), The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (Oliver Sacks), State of Fear (Michael Crichton)</p>

<p>Required reading: Works by Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, and Dave Eggers; Selected articles from The New Yorker, The New York Times; King Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night</p>

<p>Newspapers, magazines, publications: Science, The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, National Geographic, Popular Science, The Columbia Spectator, Esquire</p>

<p>Art, shows, festivals, entertainment: "Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams" Met 2005, "2046", "Toro Negro (Black Bull)" (Mexican Documentary), "The Motorcycle Diaries"</p>

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<p>Jhumpa Lahiri is an AWESOME author! Did you read "Interpreter of Maladies?"</p>

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<p>only one short story though, "a temporary matter" (it was required reading) i haven't had time to read all of it. i want to though.</p>

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<p>Jhumpa Lahiri is pretty good looking too :)</p>

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<p>really? i never knew.</p>

<p>post your info! :P</p>

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<p>At least her pic at wikipedia is looks great.</p>

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<p>ok i'm going to go on wikipedia now :D</p>

<p>... cool she went to barnard</p>

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<p>We have similar things--Twelfth Night, New Yorker, and the Matisse Exhibit at the MET</p>

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<p>really? post your info!</p>

<p>you went to the matisse exhibit? when you came to nyc on vacation? (noticed you live in ca)</p>

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<p>oh i heard about the matisse exhibit! it has to do wiht textiles, right? When I was in NY this summer I went to the Met with my family and they did a very shallow broad general tour and I took 6 hours with my sketchbook and didn't get past the classical and the egyptian sections.</p>

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<p>hehe yeah it'd probably take someone months to do great sketches of everything there.</p>

<p>the exhibit was about all of the textiles that matisse encountered and collected during his years as an artist. it was cool because you could see how all of the cloths and garments appear in his actual paintings.</p>

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<p>As for me...</p>

<p>For pleasure-
Pride and Prejudice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Handmaid's Tale, Caramello, Dracula, Candide, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dangerous Liasons</p>

<p>Required-
Frankenstein, The House on Mango Street, Native Son, The Merchant of Venice, Lord Jim, The Tempest</p>

<p>Publications-
Time Magazine and the Baltimore Sun (at least they aren't People and Seventeen)</p>

<p>Entertainment- Peace Rally in DC, this amazing jazz concert I went to when I was in France, and... I want to put one more thing down but I haven't decided what yet.</p>

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<p>Well I dont remember everything so this is just what i remember-</p>

<p>For pleasure- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Siddhartha by Hermanne Hesse, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Trial by Franz Kafka</p>

<p>Required- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, and Reading Lolita in Tehren by Azar Nafisi</p>

<p>Newspapers and Magazines- Time, Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, CMYK Magazine</p>

<p>Performances, Exhibits,etc- Henri Matisse at the MET, Rent and Chicago on Broadway, Paul Strand at the Getty, "Proof", Siren Music Festival</p>

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<p>i love jhumpa... however the namesake was more of a character study than a strong-plotted book. a brilliant character study, nonetheless. and her short stories are the only i'll read, besides andrew sean greer's</p>

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<p>For pleasure: HP, LOTR, E=MC^2: a bio of world's most famous equation. Zero. C++ for dummies (hehe ) . Crux with mayhem (a math contest journal, borrowed from school's math office) and some various shakespear plays (I love drama).</p>

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<p>Pleasure: Gone with the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Good Earth, White Oleander, Harry Potter, Manga (japanese Comics) of all shapes and sizes though Naruto has to be my favorite at the moment, a ****load of fanfiction, The Nanny Diaries, Counte of Monte Cristo (good so far but haven't had a chance to finish)</p>

<p>Required: The Stranger, THe Things they carried, Beloved, Siddhartha, love in the time of Chloera, king lear, Catch-22</p>

<p>pub: entertainment weekly, Newsweek, Elle, vanity fair...because they have pretty photographs, Us Weekly and all those celebrity magazines, occasionally New York Times or Washington post,</p>

<p>Movies: a lot of chick flicks but most recently i've been obsessing over Pride and Prejudice :D</p>

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<p>Books for pleasure: 36 Days, Plan of Attack, News of a Kidnapping, Me and Ted Against the World, </p>

<p>Required reading: The Great Gatsby, Huclkeberry Finn, Beowulf, The Scarlett Letter</p>

<p>Newspapers, magazines, publications: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Time, Newsweek <-------massive news junkie</p>

<p>Art, shows, festivals, entertainment: Crash, Saw, Just Friends, The 40 Year Old Virgin</p>

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<p>Books for pleasure: Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee), Freakonomics (Steven Levitt), Game Theory At Work (James Miller), The Republic (Plato), Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett), The Secret History (Donna Tartt)</p>

<p>Required reading: I don't have any required readings, but I read these as supplements: Why Globalization Works (Martin Wolf), 20:21 Vision (Bill Emmott), Essays on Economics and Economists (R.H. Coase)</p>

<p>Newspapers, magazines, publications: The Economist, Cosmopolitan, Time</p>

<p>Art, shows, festivals, entertainment: Performances: Saturday Night Fever, Quills. Films: Beijing Bicycle, Stage Beauty. Exhibits: Jazz Up (an exhibition of Singaporean jazz)</p>

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<p>I once read all of Leviatan for pleasure. </p>

<p>I've since redefined my definition of pleasure.</p>

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<p>lol good one.
I read w/e is on my (or my parent's ) shelves. when I shop for books, I dash straight for the science/technology section and rarely buy fiction books (unless it's HP)</p>